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# Understanding Judge Magazine's "Post Card Probloid No. 5" This page from Judge presents humorous short sketches and a reader-participation contest. The cartoons mock social situations: **"Saving"** satirizes rationalization—a man justifies eating spoiled fish to avoid waste, then needs a doctor. **"Another Kind of a Dog"** plays on literary pretension. A woman misunderstands the phrase "like Hamlet with the great Dane left out" (meaning omitting important elements) and humorously applies it to a real dog, creating absurdist humor about misapplied education. **"Too Late"** uses melodramatic language to describe a woman's perfection—"moonlight over an Italian lake," poetic lips—then the punchline: she married someone else, so the narrator's appreciation arrives too late. **"Diplomacy"** illustrates social etiquette: a woman can't wear her new hat without offending a friend whose maid has an identical one. The **Probloid** is Gelett Burgess's interactive feature inviting readers to solve a social dilemma in ten words—here, how to handle a friend kissing your wife. Judges award prizes, positioning readers as participants in Judge's humor.
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Saving “Yes, doctor, I knew the fish wasn’t fresh, but it would have been entirely spoiled by the next day if T hadn’t eaten it ‘Wouldn't it have been bet- ter to let the fish spoil than to t your stomach?” Well, You cen give me something to fix my stomach all right, but I’m blessed if there is anything you can do for really spoiled fish.” up no Another Kind of a Dog During the professor's lec- ture Mrs. Wood B. Literary was much impressed with an e: pression he used, “like Hamlet with the great Dane left out.” Later, in conversation, he told of his woes in chaperoning a party of giddy school girls to Mt. Vernon and forgetting to take them to see the tomb. “Dear me, wasn't that too bad,” gushed the lady, “just as you said a few moments ago, ‘like seeing Hamlet with the St. Bernard left out!” . Drown by PL. Cronwr “Wirnin THE fectly Law” charming, Too Late She is the most wonderful woman in the world. Her eyes are like moonlight over an Ital- jan lake. Her lips suggest the poct’s “small red wound.” and her chin—ah, her chin! She dances with the freedom of a leaf in the wind and her laughter comes like the ter falling in a marble She is utterly perfect. None of these things [ real ized, though, until she had mar: ried the other man sound of w fountain Diplomacy Mrs. Brown—Your new hat isadream, my dear. But would you mind not weering it to my bridge tomorrow? Mrs. White—But it’s very best hat! Buying it set me back a whole month’s al- lowance. Mrs. wonderful. my Brown —It's But you per enchanting, see our new maid happens to have one just like it, and she might take ¢ ense. Post Card Probloid No. 5 Personally Conducted by Geet Burcess RUL. Cards to be considered in the Contest must be received at the Office of JUI t later than Ten Days after the date the Issue in which Announcement of the Probloid is made The Answer which, in the op’ will receive a Prize of Five Dolla 7. Every other Answer published in JUDGE will receive a Payment of One Dollar 8. Answers will be p f JUDGE Probloid. All answers must be written in ink of typewritten upon Post Cards the long way of the Card. Cards must be addressed to Gelett Burgess, care of JUDGE, ion of Gelett Burgess, is the Best Fifth Avenue, New York Every answer must be accompanied by the Name and Addre of the Competitor in the fourth blis u Announcement of the ter that con the Answers as desire Post Card. y send as y on a sep Any Competitor ma each is written u O bea perfect Gentleman is not always easy. When | you step ona tack with yourstockinged feet,when you find yourself in your nightshirt on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway, when you nerve yourself for a cold shower bath and find the water has been turned off, it is difficult to express yourself elegantly. Don’t worry, however, I am not going to ask you to do any of these things. But, dear Reader, you have i nation, and you must know what I mean. You know what it means to be Equal to the Occasion, as Shakespeare says, whether it is only a hairpin that has fallen down your ‘neck, or when your husband asks you why you don’t buy a pretty hat like Daisy Darling's. fe has many moments like that. Sometimes your little daughter puts Gum in your back hair, and sometimes she insists upon marrying an interior decorator, and you are called upon to make a Few Remarks. The Prize-Winning Replies to Probloid No. 4 Will be Announced in Judge for February 7th 2 But this isn’t that; it is, on the other hand, different to which. What I really mean is this: today. He said: Smith informed me today, that yesterday, looking through my parlor window, he had seen Willams kiss- I must write to Williams about it. But an old friend came to me ing my wife. what shall I say? Now, this may happen to any married man, and we should all be prepared. But I wouldn't write, I’d telegraph. If you can’t tell the scoundrel what you think of his actions in ten words, you have no self-control, and he may do it again. Why, he may even kiss you, next time! What should you wire him, then, if you had a wife, and you heard of his kissing her? See how quickly you can express your emotions in ten words. That is the Probloid. comicbooks.com